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  1. Johan de Witt - The first calculation on the valuation of life…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Daxenberger/

    7 Mar 2023: London. Hald, A. (2003) A History of Probability and Statistics and their Applications before 1750. ... Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 16(2), 119-136. Weir, D.R. (1989).

  2. On Growth and Form - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Darcy/DArcy_Thompson/

    7 Mar 2023: history. Even now the zoologist has scarce begun to dream of defining in mathematical language even the simplest organic forms. ... But natural history deals with ephemeral and accidental, not eternal nor universal things; their causes and effects thrust

  3. Edinburgh Physics Examinations - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Edinburgh_p_exams/

    7 Mar 2023: We give the papers for the M.A. Pass degree in Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. ... We give two Natural Philosophy papers, one from October 1882 and the other from April 1883.

  4. History EMS Newsletter December 2009 27 Death of a ... PDF (153k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/hartveit_doas.pdf

    4 Mar 2021: G. Tait, who held the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University.2. ... 2 Natural philosophy would eventually evolve into physics. Occupation of the founding members.

  5. Donald Cameron McIntosh, M.A., D.Sc., J.P. - RSE Obituary - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/McIntosh_RSE_Obituary/

    7 Mar 2023: The fixed seven-course curriculum for the M.A. degree was then in force and this, since Natural History was one of the prescribed courses, helped to determine McIntosh's later ... Stimulated during his M.A. course by Professor Alleyne Nicholson's

  6. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (Z) -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/z/

    7 Mar 2023: Monthly, 22, (1915) shows that for most of their history the arguments were held in low esteem but that in the 19. ... Moore (p. 220) begins by saying, "The history of maximal principles, such as Zorn's Lemma, is strewn with multiple independent

  7. The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace PDF (435k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BSHM/Hollings_Lovelace.pdf

    26 May 2019: History, and Political Economy’, she also wanted Ada to study ‘The principles of. ... Natural History’, and she encouraged her interests in astronomy. She described.

  8. Jose Celestino Mutis Prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Jose_Celestino_Mutis_Prize/

    7 Mar 2023: During his stay in Madrid he taught anatomy at the Hospital de Madrid and studied mathematics, physics, astronomy and natural sciences, while working in the Botanical Garden of Soto de Migas, ... Nuestra Senora del Rosario and in 1763 he presented his

  9. René de Sluze (1622 - 1685) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sluze/

    6 Jul 2023: De Sluze did not write exclusively on mathematics. He also wrote on astronomy, physics, natural history, history and theological matters connected with his work in the church. ... How de Sluze must have enjoyed being asked by Oldenburg about the history

  10. Italian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Italy/

    7 Mar 2023: Created a museum of physics and natural history in La Specola beside the Pitti Palace in Florence. ... Pietro Rossi (1738-1804). An entomologist who was professor of logic at Pisa, becoming professor of natural history there in 1801.